Shop ‘til you drop ― It’s no holiday for retail workers

Too many Mainers today work too few hours for too low pay. The data show over and over and over how part-time, low-wage, and benefit-less jobs trap […]

Jody Harris

Posted December 2, 2015

Tags Incomes, Job Quality, Wages

Jobs and Income

Testimony in Support of LD 1318, An Act To Promote Individual Private Savings Accounts through a Public-private Partnership

Part-time workers are mostly ineligible for employer retirement plans. Just over 40,000 Mainers work in part-time jobs. Maine has the sixth highest rate of “involuntary part-time” employment […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted May 7, 2015

Tags Incomes, Job Quality, Jobs

Jobs and Income

Testimony in Opposition to LD 489 and LD 1353

“Maine needs policies that increase the wages of workers, not reduce them. We can’t sustain our state’s economy with jobs that don’t compensate workers adequately.” Good Morning […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted May 4, 2015

Tags Incomes

Jobs and Income

Testimony in Support of LD 843, An Act to Raise the Minimum Wage and Index It to the National Average Wage

“An increase in Maine’s minimum wage is long overdue. Adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage in Maine is lower than it was forty years ago. Wages for […]

MECEP

Posted March 23, 2015

Tags Incomes, Minimum Wage

Jobs and Income

Fewer than One in Five Maine Households Have Incomes above $100,000 per Year

Mark Sullivan

Posted October 21, 2014

Tags Incomes, Job Quality

Jobs and Income

Maine’s Lack of Population and Job Growth Tamps Down Growth in Wages and Salaries

Today’s data release from the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows Maine’s personal income growth kept pace with the nation and the region in the second quarter of 2014, but […]

Joel Johnson

Posted September 30, 2014

Tags Employment, Incomes, Job Quality, Jobs

Jobs and Income

Maine Has Less Wage and Salary Income, More Transfer Payments than Nation as a Whole

Mark Sullivan

Posted September 30, 2014

Tags Incomes, Job Quality

Jobs and Income

Maine's Growth in Wage and Salary Income Trails the Nation

Mark Sullivan

Posted September 30, 2014

Tags Incomes, Job Quality

Jobs and Income

MECEP Analysis: Latest Personal Income Data Confirms Continued Slow Growth in Maine

Transfer payments including Social Security and Medicare account for a disproportionate share of personal income in Maine and reflect the state’s aging demographic. Augusta, Maine (Tuesday, September […]

Posted September 30, 2014

Tags Incomes, Wages

Maine’s Economy

Child poverty fell in 2013, but median household income continues to go nowhere

Child poverty in Maine fell back to pre-recession levels in 2013, but income for the median household and the overall poverty rate saw no improvement, according to […]

Joel Johnson

Posted September 18, 2014

Tags Children, Incomes, Job Quality, Poverty

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Shop ‘til you drop ― It’s no holiday for retail workers

Testimony in Support of LD 1318, An Act To Promote Individual Private Savings Accounts through a Public-private Partnership

Testimony in Opposition to LD 489 and LD 1353

Testimony in Support of LD 843, An Act to Raise the Minimum Wage and Index It to the National Average Wage

Fewer than One in Five Maine Households Have Incomes above $100,000 per Year

Maine’s Lack of Population and Job Growth Tamps Down Growth in Wages and Salaries

Maine Has Less Wage and Salary Income, More Transfer Payments than Nation as a Whole

Maine's Growth in Wage and Salary Income Trails the Nation

MECEP Analysis: Latest Personal Income Data Confirms Continued Slow Growth in Maine

Child poverty fell in 2013, but median household income continues to go nowhere